Light-striker.



R. VGN HORVTH,

LIGHT STRIKBB,

APELIUATION FILED JULY 11, 1808.

Qi-gg Patented sept. 2v, 1910.

KUSGHENQ'LZ, QF, VIENNA., AUSTREA-HUNGARY.

LIGHT-STRKEE.

V Specification of Letters Patent. T'ggr'lgag ,Sd-5p@ gfg' application flied :any 1i, 190s. sensing. rilassa.

To all whom it 'may concern:

'Be it. known that l, Rionann von Hony'rH7 a subject of the Emperorof Austriaf Hungary, residino at No. l? llandstrasser giiertel, in Vienna, in the Empire of Austrial-lungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Light-Strikers, oli which the following is a specification.

Notwithstanding the development oi? the match industry there is still a demand for li leht-strikers which will not fail in the open air, in a storm for example, and able to compote successfully with matches as regards cost`v which is oli' great importance from an industrial point of view. Light strikers in which powder caps `are caused to explode by means of a percussion hammer so as to cause a slow match or tinder arranged in prox? imity to the place ot' explosion to glow, present the defect that the explosion is frequently not produced7 especially in damp weather, while even when the explosion does occur it. does not always result in the kindling of the tinder. This renders theselightstrikers uncertain in operation and thus prevents their commercial success. The iiints which are still sometimes used for striking' a light demand special skill in using them :for this purpose so that they do not come 'up to present day requirements.

Now for some time substances or'bodies have been known which emit sparks copiously and with a very slight amount of triction. These bodies, such for example as pyrophorie metals or alloys, altord means tor obtaining a convenient industrial light striker which is always certain in its open' lation, and such a device forms the object of the present invention. As these bodies loecome operative when but slightly heated1 a sharp knife-like instrumentJ is sufficient for producingthesparks for igniting a slow match. lt is therefore only necessary to provide such 'a sharp piece of iron or steel with a sleeve serving for the reception of the slow match-the end of which is situated. in close proximity to the edge of' the piece ot iron/or steel. lf therefore, with the end or the slow match piotrudinf-, this edge is drawn quickly over the rictional surface of the sparkemittinit!T body, the slow will invariably be kindled.

A forni of light-striker in accordance wil the present invention is illustrated hv 1 of example in the accompanying' dra* in which I u Figure l. shows it in longitudinal soothes ready for use. Fin' 2 a view snot l l b. device ready for packing-un. cross-section on the line lill and. Fig. l shows the device i or closed condition ready for the a designates a stoel sleeve somcw encd at Another sleeve c ri the slow match or tinder l i" `place: front end of the slow match is caused trnde as itar as the edge Z) ot the a, when it is desired to strike a l" rictional surface f ol 'the sparibody e, which may' be of any snitebl.Y is preferably arranged at the 'liront a protecting sleeve or socket 'g which at its other extremity. 'if the edge o steel sleeve o is drawn rapidly over the tional surface f in the direction in by the arrow a, the sparks erH t l the end of the slow match ai, desired. to extinguish th. only necessary to slide the sie' gether with the sleeve o rigidly co. q therewith into the protecting sonT e) The slow match or tindei: r: be replaced by an ini'iainmehle like.

1What l. claim and desire to Letters latent of the United States is l. A light striker comprising a sleevinggn a sharpened projection at one 'en-ii, slow match frictionally and adjust-nhl o tained within said sleeve,` a. seeono, carrying on its outside a spark e body having a rict-ionalsurface pendent coperation with the shari e jection off the lirst named sleeve7 sleeve being closed at one ond the other end to receive the first. the-projection and the ignited slow match.

2. 'A light striker comprisinge i .Within said sleevefand a second sleeve han ing ze sharper-ged pojeeton at Une end, a n testimony whereof I ax my signature wick frmtlonally'and adJusably @Untamed 1n presence 0I" two Wltnesses.

RICHARD VON HORVTH.

Witnesses ADELAIDE FUNK, AUGUST FUGGER.

ing' onv its outside a spark emitting body I having fr ilciionl surface for an independent coperaton with said sharpened projecton. 

